DNA Case Study: Finding a Great Grandfather with Mary Eberle of DNA Hunters

[@dannyoconnell6608]

Thank you Mary and Lisa. You always give me great ideas for my DNA list. Sorry I missed you live.

[@mattpotter8725]

With the Ancestry Pro Tools Shared Matches it's not just being able to see how much DNA your matches share with each other but that you get all your matches and not just those over 20cM. This really helps identify more matches on the same branch and thus more potential matches with trees with which to identify how they may link up to your tree. What is implied in this presentation, but i don't think is that clear, is that by testing (or even just being able to see shared matches of) close relations (siblings, children, parents, grandparents, cousins) means that by seeing how many cMs everyone shares with a match you may be able to narrow down how they are related to you, because some of your known matches may have wildly different amounts to you thus showing you that a match is a lot closer than you previously thought (they obviously by chance inherited more DNA from the common ancestors than you did). Great presentation though. The matches in investigating are more distant than using the WATO tool allows for (i think) but this is all very useful information and it's very useful to see how a professional uses these tools.

[@ms2668]

Trying to identify the GGF of a friend using DNA matches (Ancestry and MyHeritage) and having little to no luck. Family is of Norwegian descent (mid-to-late 1800s immigration to WI/MN), so using family surnames is off the table. I also believe that my friend's GGF was a 1st/2nd cousin of her GGM...if not closer. I believe this is reinforced by her DNA cluster chart that shows one huge red cluster of 52 people, then ten-twelve other clusters of 4-7 people...some of those sharing matches with people in the large red cluster. Leads me to think that a Y-DNA test of a male cousin from the same male line using a company that has a Scandinavian database might be the only answer. Any recommendations?

[@richardoneal1055]

You've had her on as a guest before. Maybe she knows what she's doing, but she's incoherent, and isn't capable of carrying a topic through in a logical manner.